Super easy French Braid bun!

Ok so todays do was super easy if you have a Topsy tail, remember you can pick these up for super cheap on Ebay!

After your normal Dutch Braid you just stick your topsy tail all the way up under your braid and pull the a tail of your french braid up under the braid,

Now Baby Mermaids hair is super long so the tail stuck up out of the top of her braid, so we went up just a bit and stuck the topsy tail down this time under the braid

and pulled the hair all the way down and under, I didn’t get a side view but this stayed in super good all day no bobby pins and a ruff day of play at school, it would be great for the beach or the pool!

Book Worm goes to the Prom!

Wow, Long time no post! We have been incredibly busy and crazy the last year, the last day of school we found out that we had to be out of our house in 30 days because our landlord was selling our house :0) so we moved into my parents basement, and with the 8 of us sharing one bathroom it left little time to “play with hair” but we are now in a little twin home while we build a house! Yep I am finally getting my dream home! Happy 20 year anniversary to us (it should be done in August). I have also been the Speech and Debate Team mom, and I have been crazy busy with that but super excited to share an incredible Sr. year with book worm! She has qualified for 2 national tournaments (the first person in Utah to qualify for the NIETOC using the bid program) and Little princess had a rocking good freshman year in speech and debate and also made the JV girls Basketball team!

But now that you’ve gotten caught up with us! lets get to the prom!

Of course my Dh had to get a picture of my tongue  hanging out, it just does that for pictures, I don’t know why!

So I just split her hair up into sections to curl, like the glove, I feel like Michael Jackson! to bad its not white and sparklie

My neato glove is blending in to her hair but you can see how big of a piece I am taking in this picture if you look close!

Then you just take the awesome clip-less curling Iron and wrap the hair around it, in a spiral, not on top of the other hair, it takes a bit to get the hang of it,

Now, my Curling Iron is just a Wal-Mart clipless curling Iron I have been coveting the Enzo Milano, but its 120.00 and until I can find it for 30 dollars (like my chi) there is no way I can justify paying that much! This one works really well, its ceramic and heats up to 410 so I make sure I use a heat protectant!

Then this is why you have an awesome glove to hold those little ends to the curling Iron

Next I did a waterfall braid on this side, and then curled the pieces that I pulled through! (remember I do the cheat waterfall braid!) click here for the Video tutorial!

Here she is all done! I must admit it turned out really cute!

Here she is with her cute date, they had a great time, and I used enough hair spray that she slept on it and it still looked cute the next day for church! (and yes that is snow on my lawn! I wish it would get to be spring!

her “fancy prom shoes” what a cute bookworm!

Double waterfall Braid

This is a tutorial for a double waterfall braid, done the easy way! cause I am a cheater when it comes to waterfall braids and no one has to know, unless I tell you all on my blog!

so I start by sectioning out the top part of her hair and then do four Dutch braids starting at the front and ending in the back, I am not super fussy about the parts because they are going to be hidden anyway!

After I have all four braids done..

I braid them into one braid, going down the back of her hair just to finish it off

Then this is where it gets easy, just section out the very front piece of hair and put it through the first section of braid, on both the top and bottom braid using your topsy tail,

Keep pulling a small section at a time until you have all of your hair through

And your done!

sideways braid (Kristal this is for you)

So I started with fresh clean dry hair on Baby Mermaid for this one,

Then I did a sideways braid down from the front to right above her ear on the other side

I kept braiding her hair until I just had a little end then I secured it with a rubber band, next I folded up the end of the braid, and secured it with bobby pins, remember this is Baby Mermaid so we hooked bobby pins in every loop of her braid crossing, so its in really tight

Then we took the end and slipped it through the braid with our topsy tail (I could have used my fingers if I didn’t have such a useful tool. Then I just bobby pined the ends back down the bottom, you cant even see them they are under the first braid,

and your done!

Alice in Wonderland (the play) Flower hairstyle!

We Just finnished our summer workshop of “The Trial of Alice in Wonderland” and Baby Mermaid was a Flower, Daisy I think and here are some pictures of her and a step by step of her hairdo!

I braided her bangs back into two dutch braids pulling only from the front  to keep hair out of her eyes and to help hold her headpiece in place for the play

Then I pulled her hair into three pony's two on the bottom and one on the top (a triangle of pony's)

Then I started making messy buns

I wraped the hair around my finger once and left the ends curly and kinda messy

Her is how I pinned them in a X where my finger is

so I did the bottom two messy buns

Then I pulled the braids back and hooked them above the messy buns

then I tuned the top pony into a messy bun

From the front

side

and some Alice pictures “Just for Fun”